Mechthild of Bavaria

Mechthild of Bavaria ( * July 12, 1532; † November 2, 1565 in Baden- Baden) was a princess of Bavaria and by marriage Margravine of Baden.

Life

Mechthild was a daughter of the Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria (1493-1550) from his first marriage Jakobäa Maria of Baden (1507-1580), daughter of Margrave Philip I of Baden. The princess was initially engaged to Prince Philip Magnus of Brunswick (1527-1553), but this was before the marriage in the Battle of Sievershausen.

They married on January 17, 1557 in Regensburg Margrave Philibert of Baden ( 1536-1569 ). Philibert had Mechthild whose properties have been described as excellent, met at the Munich court, where he had lived as a ward of the Duke three years. The marriage related in the third degree spouses had been closed without papal dispensation. Therefore, Pope Paul IV had Bishop Otto of Augsburg to intervene against marriage. After lengthy negotiations and a payment of 300 Rhenish guilders Equipment poor girl a settlement was reached.

With the help of the Catholic Margravine Johann Ulrich Zasius came into contact with Philibert, who was commissioned by the Emperor examine the orthodoxy of the Marquis. Mechthilde was buried in the Collegiate Church in Baden -Baden. The Wandepitaph of Margrave pair is a work of the sculptor Johann von Trarbach.

Progeny

From her marriage Matilda had the following children who were brought up after the death of his parents at the court of Mechthild's brother Albert in Munich:

• Jakobi (1558-1597)

• Philip II (1559-1588), Margrave of Baden
• Anna Maria (1562-1583)

• Maria Salome (1563-1600)